O ensino de Geografia no Colégio Militar Custódia da Silva Pedreira de Porto Nacional-TO

Abstract

This present research aims to analyze the possibilities that the Military College of the State of Tocantins Custódia da Silva Pedreira of Porto Nacional, offers its teaching directed to the subject of Geography. Improving that the military school contains obedience to the specific norms of the school unit, which also the teachers. According to the data collected in the questionnaire with the Geography teacher, the contents addressed in the military school of Porto Nacional-TO, range from studying the complexity of understanding the geographic space that the human being is inserted, the use of its territory is the its consequences. As a methodological route, we carried out an apprenticeship for the students and another for the teacher responsible for the discipline of Geography. In addition to qualitative techniques, essential in the description, measurement and interpretation, the use of qualitative techniques became imperative, which provide information about the actions that can be triggered in the teaching of Geography. The way in which the methodology of geography is worked arouses interest or disinterest to the student. However, there are particularities that interfere with these new methodologies to be applied in the classroom. In militarized schools, on the one hand, these resourcefulness of developing classes that come out of everyday life can be easier to apply, because of the issue of discipline and the authority that the school contains. In this research below, it points out what Geography should be observed is worked on, seeking the response of the protagonists who are the students, enthusiastic in teaching Geography and also in a particular theme that is the target audience that were the students of the Colégio Militar studied.